{"id":117416,"date":"2021-02-04T04:59:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T09:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117416"},"modified":"2021-02-04T05:12:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T10:12:33","slug":"report-campus-anti-semitism-skyrockets-even-as-coronavirus-forces-remote-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-campus-anti-semitism-skyrockets-even-as-coronavirus-forces-remote-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Campus Anti-Semitism Skyrockets Even as Coronavirus Forces Remote Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-campus-anti-semitism-skyrockets-even-as-coronavirus-forces-remote-learning%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117416&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-16-at-2.43.14-PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses are rising at &#8220;alarming rates&#8221; and have migrated to online spaces as students have moved to remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At least 2,000 anti-Semitic incidents in total have been recorded since 2017\u2014and include swastikas being spray painted on a Jewish professor&#8217;s office, a campus performer inviting students to sing a song endorsing anti-Semitism, and scores of students being harassed for being Jewish and having pro-Israel views.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Campus<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/report-campus-anti-semitism-skyrockets-even-as-coronavirus-forces-remote-learning\/\"><strong>Report: Campus Anti-Semitism Skyrockets Even as Coronavirus Forces Remote Learning<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/student-group-pledges-to-re-up-yale-lawsuit-tossed-by-biden-doj\/\"><strong>Student Group Pledges to Re-Up Yale Lawsuit Tossed by Biden DOJ<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/justice-dept-abandons-admissions-discrimination-lawsuit-against-yale\/\"><strong>Biden&#8217;s Justice Department Drops Discrimination Lawsuit Against Yale<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Although campuses closed when coronavirus erupted, and nearly half of colleges began their fall semesters entirely or primarily online, antisemitism has continued both online and offline,&#8221; states the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusfairness.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ACF_Guide.pdf\">new report<\/a> by Alums for Campus Fairness, an advocacy group that codified 50 of the most flagrant examples of campus anti-Semitism reported in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes as colleges, including San Francisco State University, the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/education-dept-launches-investigation-into-anti-semitism-at-university-of-illinois\/\">University of Illinois<\/a>, and others, grapple with a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents. San Francisco University, for instance, was the subject of a civil rights lawsuit alleging &#8220;institutionalized anti-Semitism,&#8221; while the Department of Education launched an investigation last year into University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, citing a string of anti-Semitic incidents. More than half of Jewish students on American college campuses have reported witnessing or being the subject of anti-Jewish harassment. More than 80 percent of American Jews say anti-Semitism in America has increased during the last five years, according to a 2019 study by the American Jewish Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anti-Semitic incidents on campuses across the U.S. are on the rise at alarming rates, creating a toxic environment for Jewish students,&#8221; Avi Gordon, executive director of Alums for Campus Fairness, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. Gordon is calling on alumni communities to help combat rising Jew hatred on campus, saying their access to school trustees, leadership, and faculty is critical to curbing anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Israel activists on campus aligned with Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that has been banned on some campuses for bullying Jewish students, to harass pro-Israel speakers and invite extremists on to campus\u2014activities that continued through 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemic, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most startling incidents occurred in March 2019, when a speaker at an anti-Israel conference organized by the University of North Carolina and Duke University asked attendees to join him in singing &#8220;his anti-Semitism song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot be anti-Semitic alone,&#8221; the speaker, Tomer Nafar, was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Jewish campus buildings were defiled with anti-Israel graffiti, including at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where a Hillel House was spray panted with &#8220;Free Palestine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, Pomona College&#8217;s student president&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/claremontindependent.com\/pomona-senior-class-president-shares-and-endorses-anti-semitic-comment-on-social-media\/\">posted<\/a> anti-Semitic comments on Instagram and belittled the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>Alums for Campus Fairness unearthed several trends in how campus anti-Semitism manifests.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Zionism, it found, has largely replaced Holocaust denial, as it is viewed by anti-Israel activists as a &#8220;socially acceptable view masquerading as a commitment to social justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An indictment of Israel frequently expands to encompass all Jews, and its thin veneer often barely disguises bald antisemitism,&#8221; the report states.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-Semitic incidents on campus are largely being driven by the student body, &#8220;not faculty and administration,&#8221; the report found. &#8220;Antisemitic professors and departments do still exist,&#8221; however, and several of the documented incidents occurred at university-sponsored events.<\/p>\n<p>Support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which wages economic warfare on Israel, is no longer the most pressing concern for pro-Israel students, as it constitutes just 13 percent of the anti-Semitic occurrences recorded during the past four years. &#8220;Far more popular are campus activities, such as antizionist events, aggressive protests of Zionist events, and anti-Israel vandalism,&#8221; according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The group is pressing alumni organizations to launch petitions, write op-eds and open letters, and hold meetings with university leaders to bring attention to the issue and combat growing anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses are rising at &#8220;alarming rates&#8221; 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